crow

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /kɹəʊ/    美 /kɹoʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
    — Gaslark in his splendour on the golden stairs saying adieu to those three captains and their matchless armament foredoomed to dogs and crows on Salapanta Hills.
  2. The cry or call of a rooster or a cockerel, especially as heard at sunrise.
  3. Alternative spelling of cro (“marijuana”). alt-of,alternative,uncountable
    — My young boys hop out the ride in a crop yard searching, tryna find this crow
  4. Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.
  5. A bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
    — He approached the humble tomb in which Antonia reposed. He had provided himself with an iron crow and a pick-axe: but this precaution was unnecessary.
  6. Someone who keeps watch while their associates commit a crime; a lookout. archaic,slang
    — “Ay,” put in a young man, who had the reputation of being the smartest “crow” in London—“‘fishers of men,’ as the parson says.”
  7. A gangplank (corvus) used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships. historical
  8. The mesentery of an animal.
  9. An ill-tempered and obstinate woman, or one who otherwise has features resembling the bird; a harpy. derogatory
    — But it helps a man along to have a wife he can be proud of. Suppose you marry some old crow. People point at her and ask, 'Who is that death's head yonder?'
  10. A black person. ethnic,offensive,slang,slur
  11. The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank. slang
    — A young petty officer that must have just received his “crow” (a single chevron, with an eagle over it) was showing off to several seamen.
动词 v.
  1. To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance. intransitive
    — Yet once me thought it [the ghost of Hamlet's father] was about to ſpeake, / And lifted vp his head to motion, / Like as he would ſpeake, but euen the / The morning cocke crew lowd, and in all haſte / It ſhrunke in haſte away, and vaniſhed / Our ſight.
  2. To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag. intransitive
    — He’s been crowing all day about winning the game of cards.
  3. To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it. intransitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Dark black, the color of a crow; crow-black. uncommon
    — "Though her crow hair is lovely and wavy, she loathes it and craves yellow locks. Since she saw Hugh, she's given me no peace.” Sheffield's square , good-looking face shaped a grimace.

词形变化

crows plural crows present,singular,third-person crowing participle,present crowed past crew UK,past crowed participle,past crew UK,participle,past crown archaic,participle,past crows plural

词汇关系

下位词
American crow Australian crow Banggai crow bare-faced crow Bismarck crow black crow blue-wattled crow Bougainville crow brown-headed crow Cape crow carrion crow collared crow crow poison Cuban crow Danish crow dun crow Eurasian crow fish crow Flores crow grey crow Hawaiian crow hermit-crow high-billed crow hooded crow hoodiecrow house crow Jamaican crow jungle crow large-billed crow little crow long-billed crow Mariana crow Mesopotamian crow New Caledonian crow northwestern crow Pagenstecher's crow palm crow pied crow piping crow Puerto Rican crow robust crow Royston crow Salomon Islands crow scald-crow Scotch crow sea-crow Sinaloan crow slender-billed crow small brown crow Somali crow Tamaulipas crow Torresian crow violaceous crow white-billed crow white-necked crow †New Ireland crow
衍生词
as the crow flies crowbait crowberry crowbill crow cage crowdom croweater crowflower crowfoot crowkeeper crowlike crow-line crowly crow moon crow pheasant crow pose crow quill crow scarer crow's foot crow shark crow-shrike crow-silk crow's nest crowstep crowstone crow-tit crowtoe crow to pick crow to pluck crow to pull crow-trodden early crow eat boiled crow eat crow fruitcrow gallicrow gorcrow hoarse as a crow holy crow John crow king crow paradise-crow pig's-crow rain crow scarecrow stone the crows storm crow Town Crow water crow cockscrow crower crowingly crow over outcrow overcrow
并列词
murder

词源

词源 1
From Middle English crowe, from Old English crāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *krāā, from Proto-Germanic *krēǭ (compare West Frisian krie, Dutch kraai, German Krähe), from *krēaną (“to crow”). See below.
词源 2
The verb is from Middle English crowen, from Old English crāwan (past tense crēow, past participle crāwen), from Proto-West Germanic *krāan, from Proto-Germanic *krēaną, from imitative Proto-Indo-European *gerH- (“to cry hoarsely”).
The noun is from Middle English crowe, from the verb.
Compare Dutch kraaien, German krähen, Lithuanian gróti, Russian гра́ять (grájatʹ)). Related to croak.
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